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I love snowboarding, Surfing and MMA. Those are my favorite sports and I'll continue to do them until it kills me :)
I'm also an actor (I have been for several years). It's one of my favorite things to do! I started in theater as a kid and went into improv in my early adult years. I began writing and performing in sketch comedy. It wasn't until my mid 20's that I got myself an agent and went on auditions for commercials and TV. Although I've booked work as an actor, I took up SEO as an effort to create a more stable income.
I started SEO in 2013 with a company called Spiderhouse. While I was there, I learned a lot of the basics of SEO. I became good at SEO after studying Brian Dean's course (SEO That Works). I wasn't interested in black hat, so this course was perfect. Since then I started my own SEO company. We're called Zing Marketing!
Although I love SEO and I've started a company, I still fully intend to be an actor. Why not do both!? :)

Full Name

Erick Racedo

Display Name

Zing-Marketing

Job Title

SEO

Company

Zing Marketing

Location

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Favorite Thing About SEO

I love seeing my clients go from skeptics to excited when they start getting calls off their website.

I'm thinking of building an online gambling website called "wheretogointheworld.com" (jk).

This was great man! Thanks for the info! This totally goes hand-in-hand with what's been said in the past about creating quality content, and branding. A great example is the fact that "Hiller Plumbing" (in Nashville, TN) is searched for more than "Nashville Plumber".

Just an added note, although I completely agree with the necessity of speed for optimal user experience, it doesn't seem to be all the buzz it once was. John Mueller talked about this in a Google hangout he did back in April.

Just to back what Rand was saying on link building vs. link earning, John Mueller also makes a point of telling people to avoid link building! That can be seen in this Google hangout. I'm sure Rand will be talking about this in his upcoming webinar :)

Very cool! You mention at one point that you should link back and forth one level in your pages. Do you have a recommendation as to where that link should be? Should I write within my content about the next page coming up, as well as the previous page? Should I just keep it at the bottom of the content? At the top of the content (as with breadcrumbs). Any preference/suggestions?